[MtnClimber]

Via Mediaite: (Jason Whitlock)

There is a racial element. And this is a story about young Black men and their inability to treat each other in a humane way. Everybody involved in this on the street level was either 24 to 32 years old. Everybody. It was a group of young Black men, five-on-one. Looked like gang violence to me.

It looked like what young Black men do when they’re supervised by a single Black woman. And that’s what they got going on in the Memphis Police Department. They’ve elected some, or put some Black woman in charge of the police force, and we are getting the same kind of chaos and disunity and violence that we see in a lot of these cities run by single mothers.

If we want to discuss the breakdown of family that leads to disrespect for authority that causes you to resist the police and run from the police and not comply with the police, because you resist authority at all times, because there was no male authority in your home, let’s have that discussion.

[MtnClimber]

I think Jason Whitlock pretty much nails it.

[rarestia]

That one caused rarest wife to emote. He’s not wrong, but it took some serious balls to say it.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The problem lies with whatever f’d up standards were used to hire these ghetto gang bangers as cops.

[mewzilla]

Some reading material that's germane...

Black Rednecks and White Liberals, by Thomas Sowell

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Good piece!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Organizational culture is a powerful force shaping and regulating behavior. It fills in the details of the rules and regulations that formally exist and creates a sense of what members of the organization “ought” to do. What their internal mental guide tells them is appropriate. It is usually shaped by the behavior of others that they observe, and then see rewarded or punished. It emerges over time and becomes uncomscious.

A bit tangential to the story, but this is true in any organization, but SO TRUE in (the old) Twitter, Facebook, Google, Instagram, etc. It's also VERY TRUE in governments and universities.

[catnipman]

black or not, the murder or a Fedex Driver for a traffic infraction is horrifying and reprehensible in anyone’s book, or at least it should be ...

on the program, “On Patrol Live”, on Friday and Saturday nights, one sees live over and over again across the nation where some fool runs from the cops after a traffic stop and then resists arrest, gets caught and arrested, and yet they never get beaten or roughed up and usually not even tased ...

the show features black cops, white cops, hispanic cops male cops and female cops ... the miscreants are likewise, black, white, hispanic, male, female, young, old ... all are treated the same ...

[amnestynone]

I think the fault is the criminals. A lot of black person who live with them are very angry and it shows. If you are an officer you have to deal with this senseless craziness on a day today basis it reaches a breaking point.

[econjack]

Nailed it. It really started under Johnson and the War on Poverty. The rules changed such that you receive larger benefits if it is a single-parent house. It should be the other way. If both parents are present, benefits should be higher, not lower. That would provide an incentive to have the male share the parenting load. It's easy to be a father. It's a hell of a lot harder to be a parent.

[Four of Six]

There is nothing racist about this. Rather, rumor has it the victim was having an affair with a cop’s wife, thus the reason four (4) cops beat his ass into a pulp.

Don’t wanna get beat down by cops? Then don’t bang his wife behind his back on the sly while he’s on duty protecting your AZZ.

Dude got some old school justice. No tears should be shed for him. Got what he deserved.

[Kaiser8408a]

A friend of mine lives in Memphis and says it is hopelessly broken. The city is controlled by the (black) Ford family (funeral parlors). Harold Ford on Fox’s The Five is the face ... of corruption.

[proxy_user]

I suspect the entire population of Memphis, including the entire local government, is like this. Everyone who is able to leave, such as well-off educated Blacks, has left. Those left behind are below average in ability and judgement.

[PGR88]

Its a problem of culture, but the opposite of how they imagine. America is transitioning to its 3rd-World culture.

America has gone from a constitutional, dispersed-power, local authority government, and generally Christian society — to a centralized, woke/neo-marxist, highly political government and atheist/confused society

We should expect our cities and police to look more 3rd world

Generally, much more violent, more street crime, apathetic and corrupt cops - UNTIL some aspect is made into a major political issue. Then heads will roll

[Rurudyne]

Chris Rock had some wisdom about running from the cops.

“If the police have got to come and get you they are bringing a beating.” — Chris Rock

[SaxxonWoods]

Every one of these deaths seems to happen the same way. Resisting arrest, fighting with police. Why a lone idiot thinks they can fight multiple armed people and escape them is beyond me.

How many black women have been killed this way? I can’t think of any. Maybe they are smarter than the men.

[Mr. Blond]

Memphis is majority black. Look at African justice.

[quadrant]

What stuns me is the reluctance of the black community to realize that their responses to police stops are a factor in these incidents. After all the incidents - all over the US and involving polices officers of all races - far too many blacks feel it necessary to argue with the police when pulled over for a traffic infraction.
Blacks seem to believe that if they protest loud enough and long enough, the police will release them without a ticket.
As anyone knows who has been sopped by the police (and I've been stopped on numerous occasions) once the police have stopped you, they're convinced in their own minds that you're guilty - and that you're going to get a ticket, regardless of your protestations of innocence.
Any arguing is a waste of time.
If you want to argue, argue with the judge.
With all these tragic incidents, why haven't black people learned this inescapable fact?

[353FMG]

Don’t exceed the speed limit when in Memphis.

[Responsibility2nd]

I wish I could remember the name of one FReeper who has this most excellent tagline. I'd like to give him all the credit.

We do not have a race problem. We have a problem race.

In addition let's remember what Thomas Jefferson said.

The government we elect is the government we deserve.

To put it simply, Memphis deserves and is responsible for the thugs who beat Tyre to death.

[Lurker]

“Organizational culture is a powerful force shaping and regulating behavior.”

Any organization is only as good as the worst psychopath they tolerate among them.

There are no exceptions to this rule.

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